Comment & Opinion

The Department of Agriculture’s Section 502 loan programs help low-income families buy homes with mortgages that don’t require a down payment. But in ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — If the bad news is that members of Generation Z can’t afford to buy a house until they are middle-aged — which isn’t really bad news,...

The number 40 trillion — 40 followed by 12 zeros — is largely incomprehensible as it pertains to everyday life. But for context, consider that 40 tril...

Pennsylvania is confronting a growing public-safety challenge involving e-bikes, e-scooters and other micromobility devices. The concern is no longer ...

Earlier this year, as the Islamic Republic of Iran was busy crushing the largest protests since those in the aftermath of the 1979 revolution, Preside...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — On Fox News, they’re still talking about the "socialist takeover" of the Democratic Party — so are President Donald Trump and top R...

A theater in downtown Denver has defaulted on its $400,000 taxpayer-backed loan without opening for a single show. The loan included $52,000 earmarked...

As college students across the country get ready to head back to campus, universities face a daunting challenge: how to encourage genuine learning whi...

Francesca Hong was supposed to win the Democratic Party nomination for governor of Wisconsin by 20 points — she lost by 0.4%. The Polymarket trading s...

Invasion of the yellow jackets. Sounds like a Revolutionary War battle, doesn’t it? It was definitely war between these flying insects and me these pa...

For only the third time in U.S. history, more women are working than men — and this profoundly abnormal state of affairs could become the new normal i...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — At the heart of the crisis facing journalism — and hence democracy, too — is the question of bias. Can journalists ever really be i...

NEW YORK (TNS) — It is an odd confession to make about a statistic, I realize, but then again I am an economist, so I am just going to go ahead: I lov...

The socialist now running New York City recently hailed a “rent freeze” on 1 million apartments. Not surprisingly, it didn’t take long for the laws of...

At an Arctic Council meeting in Rovaniemi, Finland, in May 2019, Mike Pompeo asked whether the world wanted the Arctic Ocean to become another South C...

When thinking of President Donald Trump, a famous line from Francis Ford Coppola’s "The Godfather" may come to mind. At one point, Michael Corleone as...

A Los Angeles homeless nonprofit funded by taxpayers paid $1.7 million to for-profit companies owned by its CEO, according to an investigation by the ...

The good news is that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to provide officers with body cameras over the next few months. The bad news is...

DALLAS (TNS) — School doesn’t begin again for a few weeks. But you wouldn’t know it looking at my phone. These days, returning to the classroom seems ...

Nearly 40,000 Pennsylvanians dropped their Obamacare coverage this year. The shocker is that the largest drop in coverage came from middle-income fami...